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By Dan Flynn and Suzanna Schreck

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Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 06:59:07

Spring 2010: A bad stretch for produce

Posted on June 11, 2010
Certain times of year are associated with increased prevalence of foodborne disease--most notably, E. coli O157:H7 during summer months. Springtime, to the author's knowledge at least, has not had any such specific association with a particular pathogen or particular food problem, which is why it was so striking to watch the events of April and May 2010 unfold like they did...

Minn. Evidence Links E. coli to Raw Milk Dairy

Posted on June 11, 2010
Look closely. The image (right, click to enlarge) identifies a strain of E. coli found in a recent cluster of illnesses that state officials say is linked to raw milk from a farm in south central Minnesota. In down-to-earth terms, it could be likened to a bar code--a bar code for a microbe...

$8 Billion Boost Proposed for Child Nutrition

Posted on June 11, 2010
Historic nutrition bill increases funding, expands nutritional standards, and tackles school food safetyHouse lawmakers introduced a historic child nutrition bill yesterday that would target childhood obesity, hunger, and school food safety practices...

Pre-Harvest Vaccines in the Pipeline

Posted on June 11, 2010
With the plethora of beef recalls over recent years, companies and scientists are teaming up to develop pre-harvest vaccines for livestock used for food. Pre-harvest vaccines are administered to livestock to minimize the presence of naturally occurring bacteria within the ruminants that can cause human illness...

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Three Seafood Processors not up to Par

Posted on June 10, 2010
Seafood processing companies in Wisconsin, Colorado, and California were on the receiving end of warning letters made public this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).In Wisconsin, the Lake Superior Fish Company on June 1 was warned about "serious violations of the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulation" at its processing facility located in Superior...

Feds To Begin Enforcing Olive Oil Classification

Posted on June 10, 2010
The United States has never before had enforceable or legally defined designations for olive oil. With terms such as extra virgin, light, with lemon, unfiltered, cold-pressed, the variety is endless, and understandably confusing. Things are changing...

Bulgarian Food Safety Agency Established

Posted on June 10, 2010
The Bulgarian Cabinet has approved the establishment of a control body to coordinate food quality at all levels, modeled on the European Food Safety Authority, the government announced yesterday. After the cabinet's regular meeting, Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naidenov announced the envisioned Food Safety Agency as well as an accompanying Risk Assessment Center...

Lincoln Survives Heated Primary Runoff

Posted on June 10, 2010
Chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) defeated labor-backed Arkansas Lt. Governor Bill Halter in a heated Democratic primary runoff Tuesday, bucking the notion that Lincoln might be the third Senate incumbent casualty of strong anti-Washington sentiment this year...

Germany Reccommends Limiting BPA

Posted on June 10, 2010
The German Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt or UBA) announced yesterday it recommends limiting the use of the increasingly controversial chemical, bisphenol A (BPA), in certain products to protect public health. BPA has been used for 60 years to manufacture a range of plastic products, including water bottles and the lining of food and beverage cans...

Ballpark Food Safety: Cleveland

Posted on June 10, 2010
Editor's Note: Over the summer and fall, Food Safety News will be visiting Major League Ballparks. Our major focus will be food safety, but we will also check to see what local foods are favorites and what's bringing the crowds out.Today's ballpark: Progressive Field, Cleveland IndiansWhy Now: Not since the days after President Clinton opened "Jacobs Field" in Cleveland in 1994 has there been as been buzz about a baseball game as there is about the one that will be played on Sunday...

Cost of Infant Formula Additives Questioned

Posted on June 10, 2010
As discussed in Marion Nestle's book, What to Eat, when preliminary evidence came out associating DHA--an omega-3 fatty acid--with visual and cognitive benefits in young infants, infant formula companies could not wait to begin adding it to their products...

A.S. Watson Reports Fungus in Sports Drinks

Posted on June 09, 2010
Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety (CFS) is warning people not to drink two types of Isotone Sports Drinks because fungus has been detected in them.CFS issued the warning after being told by the manufacturer, A.S. Watson Group (ASW) Limited that sales of the product were being suspended because the company has discovered the fungus...

USDA Announces Grants to Stop Hunger

Posted on June 09, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced yesterday that the agency was awarding grants to end hunger in America. According to a press release, USDA will invest in research, planning, and other hunger-relief activities through the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008--or Farm Bill, which includes authorization for $5 million in funding under new Hunger-Free Communities grants...

Taiwan to Inspect U.S. Beef Facilities

Posted on June 09, 2010
Taiwan will begin sending public health officials to conduct on-sight inspections of slaughterhouses processing beef which will be exported to the country, Focus Taiwan, a local newspaper reported. According to Taiwan's Health Ministers Yaung Chih-liang, inspections, to begin in August or September of this year, will help ensure U...

Bacteria Found in Canadian Bottled Water

Posted on June 09, 2010
The American Society of Microbiology recently presented a study at the 110th General Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology which found that more than 70 percent of bottled water samples from Canada contain bacterial rates more than 100 times the U...

Confirmed Cases Reach 60 in Subway Outbreak

Posted on June 09, 2010
Yesterday the Illinois Department of Public Health released a brief update on the Subway Salmonella outbreak. The update states:"Confirmed cases of Salmonella serotype Hvittingfoss - 60. Age range of confirmed cases: 2 to 88. Cases have reported eating at Subway restaurants located in 22 counties -- Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Fulton, Knox, LaSalle, Macon, Marshall, Moultrie, Ogle, Peoria, Sangamon, Schuyler, Shelby, Tazewell, Vermilion, Warren, Winnebago and Will...

Assembly to Focus on Food Allergy School Safety

Posted on June 09, 2010
The first-ever National Food Allergy School Safety Assembly is set to take place on June 19 at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY.In partnership with the Eating & Educating, Living Life (ELL) Foundation, U.S. Representative Dan Maffei (D-NY) will Chair the Protect Allergic Children Across America! School Safety Event...

EU Member States May Decide on GMOs

Posted on June 09, 2010
A new recipe for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is being rolled out in Europe. The key ingredient is going to be states' rights.Cooking all this up is the complex set of institutions in Brussels that runs the EU. Beginning in mid-July, the European Commission is expected to propose that the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament should allow member states to do their own thing when it comes to GMOs...

Report: FDA Reactive, Lacks Food Safety Vision

Posted on June 09, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lacks a comprehensive vision for food safety and should change its approach to protect the food supply, says a new report by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council.The 500-page report, requested by Congress to identify ways to improve the federal food safety system, concluded that the agency--charged with regulating 80 percent of the food supply--is not efficiently using limited resources to target the riskiest parts of the food chain, too often reacting to outbreaks instead of working to prevent them in the first place...

Kids, Chefs Harvest Veggies at White House

Posted on June 08, 2010
After the South Lawn of the White House was stormed by over 500 chefs from 37 states rallying behind First Lady Michelle Obama's new Chefs Move to Schools initiative, a core group of chefs and some local elementary students harvested, washed, and prepared vegetables straight out of the Kitchen Garden on Friday...

Sulfites Found In Mexican Shrimp

Posted on June 08, 2010
Hannaford Supermarkets and Bloom brands of frozen raw extra jumbo shrimp were recalled Monday for undeclared sulfites by the seafood processor, Eastern Fish based in Teaneck, NJ.The recalled jumbo shrimp are sold in 16-ounce packages, and from full service seafood cases...

Subway Salmonella Count up to 48

Posted on June 08, 2010
The Illinois Department of Public Health yesterday reported that 48 cases of Salmonella Hvittingfoss have been confirmed in an outbreak among Illinois Subway restaurant customers in Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, Fulton, LaSalle, Macon, Marshall, Moultrie, Ogle, Peoria, Sangamon, Schuyler, Shelby, Tazewell, Warren, and Will counties...

Soy Product Maker Shut Down by FDA

Posted on June 08, 2010
A California manufacturer/distributor of soymilk, fried tofu, fresh tofu, soybean pudding, and other ready-to-eat soy products has agreed to go out of business and try again.San Diego-based Lifesoy Inc. cannot, under terms of a consent degree of permanent injunction, manufacture or distribute any more soy products for human consumption until it figures out how to do it the right way...

The Raw Milk Fights: Economics, Ideology, or Both?

Posted on June 08, 2010
Yesterday's New York Times has an op-ed, "Crying over raw milk", about the political fights over raw milk in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin legislature has introduced a bill allowing dairy farmers to sell raw milk directly to consumers. The conventional dairy industry is not happy about that...

UK: Food Standards Agency on Hot Seat over GMOs

Posted on June 08, 2010
Two members of the United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency steering group on genetically modified foods (GM foods, or GMOs) recently resigned from the group in protest over language inserted into a report from the agency strengthening the case for the growth of GMO crops and sales of GMOs in the UK...

Penn State Extension Cuts Jobs

Posted on June 08, 2010
Penn State announced today that ten jobs and dozens of additional positions are being eliminated at the university's College of Agricultural Sciences due to budget shortfalls. The job cuts will impact the Agricultural Sciences College's ability to continue to provide high-priority programs that focus on issues related to food production and security, human and animal health, and environmental quality and conservation, which are part of the university's Cooperative Extension outreach...

Group Asks USDA, FDA to Move on Catfish

Posted on June 08, 2010
In another act of the ongoing catfish regulatory drama, the advocacy group Food and Water Watch sent a letter yesterday to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Secretary of Health Kathleen Sebelius recommending they work together to get catfish inspections rolling as soon as possible...

Shrek Glasses Recalled by McDonald's

Posted on June 07, 2010
McDonald's Corp. and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that McDonald's was recalling all Shrek Forever After 3D collectable drinking glasses late last week. The designs on the glasses contain cadmium, which can cause adverse health effects with long-term exposure...

Canada Issues Warning About Uncle Ben's

Posted on June 07, 2010
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning people with allergies to milk proteins not to consume Uncle Ben's Bistro Express 1.5 kg 6 pack described below.The affected 6 packs do not declare milk in the ingredient listings on the outer box. The ingredient listings on the individual pouches within the affected 6 pack boxes are correctly labeled with milk ingredients declared where present...

Case Shows Expiration Dates for Stores, not Safety

Posted on June 07, 2010
New York consumers got a wake-up call this month when Andy Campbell reported in The Brooklyn Paper that a Brooklyn Heights Key Food store that had been accused of extending "sell-by" dates on meat was not violating food code. Campbell had earlier reported on the story of Marie Viljoen, who purchased a whole D'Artagnan chicken at the Key Food store last month and realized only after she had gotten the chicken home that there was a problem with it...

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